[Just mythoughts]

Why are the Germans so interested in Iraq?

Prior to WWI German archaeologists digging around the old city of Babylon found the Gate of Ishtar and took it to Germany where it is in a Berlin museum to this day.

Iraq has asked for it back.

Wonder if some of that stolen museum pieces are on their way to Germany.

What is the connection? Why Germany?

[Constitution Day]

I have no idea.
German archaeologists were not just interested in Iraq in the decades prior to WW2.
Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy and other Germans discovered the Pergamon altar in what is now Turkey, in the late 1800's.

I do believe the gold from Troy is now in Moscow (taken by the Soviets), but the Pergamon is in its own museum in Berlin.

[mewzilla]

Here's a question to consider...If Germany's been doing archaeological work in Iraq, did they take out of the country any of what they found? And if Saddamn did allow them to take anything out, will the German gov't now return any artifacts? After all, anything that has left Iraq in the last thirty or so years has not gone out with the permission of the Iraqi people. And why was Germany doing work that would allow Saddamn to plunder Iraq's history? Anything they may have unearthed was better off buried until Saddamn was gone.

[Terabitten]

Why are the Germans so interested in Iraq?

Duh. Didn't you see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? They're looking for the Ark of the Covenant so they can rule the world...

</ sarcasm>

[Elsie]

What is the connection? Why Germany?

What!? After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark you STILL don't know?? ;^)